Coronavirus in Germany, the Koch Institute: “Vaccines not for everyone”. Record of infections in Berlin

BERLIN – Berlin has registered more infections today than on any other day of the year: 706 cases in just 24 hours, more than in the darkest months of the pandemic. It should be noted that some could be the result of the ‘hole’ on Sunday, when many health offices remained closed and communicated the numbers on new infections late at the beginning of the week. But there is another fact that suggests that the German capital is becoming one of the most serious hot spots in Germany: since last Sunday, ten more patients are hospitalized in intensive care. Severe cases have reached a new peak of 49, the highest since May 27, when the capital’s intensive care wards treated 56 seriously ill from Covid-19.

In one of the neighborhoods most affected by the virus, Neukoelln, the police found disturbing denier leaflets from a group of self-styled “Doctors for Information” warning of alleged, imminent, “obligations to get vaccinated”. The Merkel government, in a country afflicted by the no-vax phenomenon, which in recent months have taken to the streets side by side with various neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists, has pointed out more than once that there will never be a coronavirus vaccine obligation .

But for that preponderant slice of citizens who are waiting for nothing more than to be able to protect themselves from the pandemic with a vaccine, a cold shower has arrived. The Koch Institute (Rki), the government body that centralizes data on the coronavirus, has disappointed those who were hoping not in a winter, but at least in a less severe spring. The anti-covid vaccines expected from 2021, he said, will initially be distributed to the elderly and categories at risk, therefore not to the entire population. The Rki strategic document is an invitation to citizens not to delude themselves into a quick return to normality.

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“In the treatment of Covid-19 we need regional and time-limited containment measures adapted to the risk”, commented the president of the Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, recalling that the priority, in the coming days, must be to avoid an overload of the health system. Tomorrow Angela Merkel will meet the governors of the Land to try to find a square in the harlequin of rules that now characterizes the country due to the autonomous decisions of the Land on travel, accommodation and distancing rules.

Meanwhile, the new daily infections in Germany remain above 4000; doubled in just one week. 4122 were recorded on Tuesday, a little less than Saturday’s peak, when over 4,700 had emerged. The total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic amounted to 9634, and 329,453 were infected.

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